Some thoughts which I has crossed my mind recently.. (other than the hot weather)

1. Dividend investing

I was talking to one of my colleague, and found out that he is an investor, or more specifically a dividend investor. I am glad he is an investor. There are different variations of investors: Growth investors (GARP), Value Investors / Deep value investors (Net-Net), Dividend investors, etc (then there are those that just copy what other great investors do …:p just kidding). This is in contrast to traders. Although the values of the different forms of investors are not the same, however, they basically originate from the value investing ideas of Benjamin Graham. The core principles are the same, to view an investment from its fundamentals, and not from its stock prices / volumes / trend movements. So my colleague started telling me that he invests in REITs, or other high yield stocks like ......